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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
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